Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

The first condition of immortality is death.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

He who limps is still walking.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

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More quotations tagged with “thoughts”

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

—Rene Descartes

In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

—Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

—Paul Valéry

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